Chapter One

I looked up from my spot in the loft area of the court. The idiots were so loud it making so hard to concentrate, but there wasn't much to do while we waited for the next shipment. I sat sideways on the 'throne'. It wasn't hard for me to get comfortable even in my tight clothes. I wore tight black skinny jeans tucked into knee-high deep red boots. I had on a white button up under a red vest and a black blazer. I honestly didn't like wearing the crazy costumes some of the insufferables run around in. My hand went to the gold chain around my neck as I looked to the crowd below me. As I unthinkingly slid the lapel heart pendant around in my hand I noticed that all of the members that lived in Plattsburg were here, along with most of the ones form the surrounding areas. That would explain why it was so loud.

I felt a tap on my shoulder. "Perhaps it is best all are here. A bored man is better than a seen man, after all." I tilted my head around to look at Johnathan. A tall, stout man, he was a very cunning strategist and my right hand. While he was several years my senior I was senior in rank and he did as I told him, without fail.

"You make it sound as though someone would be watching, dear Johnathan." I caught his eyes with my own, and continued my deadpan. "And if we are seen by any new groups or any passing ones that is not necessarily a bad thing. This is my home base, the very center of my domain. Those in the outlying areas would have seen and warned us if any were coming our way."

"Unless they did not come by land or sea." Quizzically I looked to him. "There are those on this world that can fly, or have a flight enabled craft."

"Are you implying that there are heroes in my city?"

"I'll do more than imply it your majesty. Have a look."

As I went to sit up at my last statement I found several Polaroids in my lap. Shifting through them I found blurry images of a female magician on the college building, streaks of black in brightly lit streets and the tale edge of a black cape, lined in yellow. It only took a moment to deduce that the three in the photos were the sick kicks Zatanna, Kid Flash, and Robin.

My voice went low. "When were these taken?"

"This evening, my Queen. Not that long ago. I first noticed the hints of, oddness, on my way to get coffee. You'll forgive me for not offering you any, I trust?"

I waved my hand at the last statement as I stood. "It will be no use to send a set to capture them; they have been trained for people like that. Why are they here Johnathan? Tell me why they are here." I'd begun to pace as I shifted through the pictures once more.

"I think they may be here to find you, My Queen. They seemed to be looking for something, and in this area what truly is there to find? None of their usual foes are in this area. We, I'm afraid, are not as stealthy in our operations as we once were. They may have had a tip. I don't think they know of the size of your kingdom, or they would not have sent children to investigate the area."

"True. But if they do find us something could easily go awry. I do not want to Justice League knocking on my door, Johnathan. I am not yet in a position to win that war." I dropped the Polaroids on a table to the back of the loft and turned back to face him. I took the gold watch from my vest pocket. Eight o'clock. The rowdy, oblivious crowd below us would continue its drinking and partying for many more hours. "We may not need to do anything, but I do not want to take a chance. I do not want to confront them If I can avoid it, but I do not want to be unprepared if we must."

"I agree, My Queen. What would you have us do?" I looked up to his expectant face, waiting my command.

"I am… unsure at the moment. But we must have a plan if and when they arrive on our doorstep. I doubt that they could find our court here." A devilish smile touched my lips. "Perhaps some of the new recruits would like something to do this evening. I could send a few of them out of the city and into another area to distract them. That would only be a temporary fix though. I do not require their attention at the moment, Johnathan. I need to be rid of them. I cannot simply kill them like I would any others that would bring hell down upon me. I cannot explain to them that this is my kingdom that would only make matters worse. I don't believe there to be a way on the offensive to lose their interest. Do we know how long they've been here?" I looked up to him from my pacing.

"I noticed them first, as I said my Queen, on my way to get coffee. They had already split up by that point so I would make the assumption they had been here for fifteen to twenty minutes. By now they have probably been here for one and a half, two hours." I looked over my shoulder again to the crowd of gang members below, whose efforts were renewed as someone arrived and brought with them a new keg. "Are you hoping they will just leave, my Queen?"

"Yes. But I have the premonition that that will not be what happens this evening. We will have to deal with this tonight I fear."

"We have little to fear, My Queen. You are more than a match for any fighter three times your size. I believe that if faced with one of them you would win."

"Winning a battle I am not worried about. Winning a war we are unprepared for is."

"I still don't see anywhere that would work. There aren't that many warehouses here. They have to be invisible or something!" Kid Flash complained as they searched the area for the third time that night.

"Well if they aren't in any warehouse, or any other building, they'd have to be underground." Zatanna said as she too looked over the area.

"That, that might be true Zee, We haven't seen anything above ground." Robin said as began to look at the sewer system map.

"Underground? Really Rob?" KF complained.

"Well let's see, The Cave, The Bat Cave, heck, even parts of the Hall are underground. It may be cliché but it is a good idea. And it would explain not finding an area that would fit." Robin looked around the map. "I don't think it is in the sewer system, unless there is an illegal add-on. And the only logical place for one of those would be…" Robin continued his search. "Nowhere. There is no place big enough for a gathering of the size. Wait. Unless they connected the sewer to a room under that building." Robin pointed to the parking garage a block down from where they were.

"The parking garage?" Zatanna looked skeptical.

"Yeah. It would be the most logical place. It is big enough, they are right on the river, the sewer goes right by, and it is an area that people wouldn't think twice about people being at during late hours.

"So now we go in and look?" Kid Flash shifted eagerly from foot to foot.

Robin nodded. "But first Zee, do you have a spell that will let us see if they are there or not?" The bird looked to the magician.

"Yeah." The teen girl turned to the building and raised her hand.

Tel su ees eht tar part.

A shimmering circle appeared a few feet in front of her outstretched hand. Coming into view was what looked like a party. There was a large number of people, men and women of every age, shape, and size drinking and laughing in a tight mob. Above them in what looked like a loft was a teen girl with short dark hair and a tall buff guy talking.

"Well I think we found them, KF. Now we go to get a better look."

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